What manner of children have the Twelve Tribes Raised?

Consider carefully the following few, but choice words

written by a sister describing these wonderful events…

“One of the caretakers in the home told someone that it was the first time they had children come there who support them. These were girls who were in the name of their abba and imma – kind, gentle, helpful and childlike.*

“It was so different where they were, so difficult, but in their hearts they remained who they were – in the name of their abba and imma and their hope. They were shiners, shining through. Chaninah is now 13 and Ishah 10.

700 Days

“It is almost two years since they were taken away. Chaninah kept a calendar. She has counted every day – it was 700 days. Those days have come to an end for her and her younger sister.

At home, in the best place, by her imma’s side…where she always wanted to be.

*In the name of…

In Hebrew, name is not just tag a person wears, but the honor, character, and authority that name immediately evokes in the hearer. “A good name,” the proverbs say, “is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor (grace) is better than silver or gold.” (Proverbs 22:1).

Thus when the three girls came in the name of their abba and imma – when they acted in the way they did – they proved that in their hearts they never left their parents’ authority, never acknowledged the cruel overlordship of the Jugendamt, and never believed the lies they were told.

In their hearts, in other words, they never left their beloved family.

Thus they displayed, from Day 1 of their Captivity, until Day 700, the kind, gentle, helpful, and childlike character of their parents.

That is what it means that they came in the name of their parents.

Let all give honor to where honor is due, to such wonderful parents and to such loyal, godly daughters. When someone can not do that, or will not do that, they merely show they have no honor themselves.

The police raid foray-type at 6 am taking the children from the parents of the biblical community 12 Tribes in Klosterzimmern (Nördlingen) and Wörnitz (Ansbach) – because of the “muckraker” report by an RTL reporter and statements of an “ex-member” of the group – already took place on Sept. 5th, 2013.

Since then, both children and parents have cried many tears over the separation, they have written heartbreaking letters of request (even just for a single visit during a festival at home, which was NOT granted!), they have fought desperately, and experienced painful separations following the brief and infrequent visits (about 2 hours every 3 weeks).

My friend whose 9-year-old son has been having to live first in an institution and now in a remote host family since Sept. 5th, 2013, let me know a while back how the witnesses she put forth were “not accepted.” How can this be in a (supposedly) just and fair trial?

I have visited the Community in Klosterzimmern 2 times and found them to be a wonderful community! They work together creating something I had never experienced before – life with and in nature, harmonious, healthy, with animals, plants, the other human beings.

The large monastery property of Klosterzimmern was wonderfully restored, expanded, and revived!

(Previously, large-scale pig breeding had been taking place there.)

Germany needs people who fashion the old into the new, who live with nature without exploiting it, who live in COMMUNITY, who are there for each other, helping each other! Who live along with their children – who experience and carry further this security from the beginning of their lives.

These believing people would never beat their children so as to injure them!

They love their children just as all other parents do. To bear the current forced separation is so difficult.

Read the impressions of this witness:

“Chaninah seemed to be from the forced taking into care by the state very insecure and helpless and anxious. All three girls spoke with a lot of longing and love about their parents. Ihave no doubtthat thechildren have grown upinanenvironment with a lot of security and care shown by their parents and by other members of the Community. For me there is no doubt that the children love their parents very much and that they suffer from the separation, very severely sometimes.”

Is this tolerable in a “free state under the rule of law”?

Aren’t there some problems of an entirely different dimension in Germany – children who really are in danger, troubles wherever you look? Why do you tear these very children and parents apart at all costs? You could scarcely imagine any more loving and more insistent letters of request than those written by these children.

Please support the speedy reunification of the affected parents and children in Klosterzimmern and Wörnitz!

Please finally let these religious people mold their lives self-determinedly again in peace, freedom, and responsibility!

Cordially,

A. R., mother of 2, pharmacist

Note: This letter will also go to the press and some public figures. It is an expression of genuine concern. Are these parents being treated with HARSHNESS deliberately because of their Christian faith?

Statements have been made such as, “If you all leave the group, you will get your children back.”

The remarkable story, in their own words, of the family taken in custody by French social services, a nation where evidence matters

“We were among those [in Sus, France] taken by the police for questioning. This was an opportunity for the prosecutor to place our four children under the care of the local social services. After two weeks of deep suffering, insecurity, crying out, repenting and rejecting doubts and accusations, the judge for children returned them to our family.

“The reports of the social workers and educators were positive, unlike times in the past. They confirmed clearly that our children are not mistreated, but strong, full of resources and very attached to their parents.

“They concluded that no physical, nor psychological damage was found in them.

They appreciated Asher, our oldest son, for his wisdom and maturity, calmly taking the situation with peace and trust, devoting himself night and day to care for his younger brothers and sister, especially Yeshayah (one and a half years old), who was brutally taken away from his imma.

“Asher brought much honor and glory to our people by his behavior.

“The judge was not so much troubled by the discipline issue, although she did ask about it. Her concerns were more about what she called the cultural isolation of our life. That is why she wants to follow up our family for six months through encounters with social workers, to come to understand the pattern of our daily life…

“We, as a couple, acknowledge our Father’s love and goodness in all that happened. Ecclesiasticus 2:1-18 is what strengthened us in time of testing. We experienced His mercy when the children were returned. He is in the picture and we want to continue to trust Him and receive His perfect work in our hearts, in order to come to fully please Him by His grace and mercy.

“More than ever our hearts and admiration go out to our brothers and sisters in Levi, who have been suffering to a much greater extent than us. Please don’t give up!”

Aman & Emunah

Notes

Ecclesiasticus 2:1-18

1 My child, if you aspire to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for an
ordeal.
2 Be sincere of heart, be steadfast, and do not be alarmed when
disaster comes.
3 Cling to him and do not leave him, so that you may be honored at
the end of your days.
4 Whatever happens to you, accept it, and in the uncertainties of your
humble state, be patient,
5 since gold is tested in the fire, and the chosen in the furnace of
humiliation.
6 Trust him and he will uphold you, follow a straight path and hope in
him.
7 You who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; do not turn aside, for fear
you fall.
8 You who fear the Lord, trust him, and you will not be robbed of your
reward.
9 You who fear the Lord, hope for those good gifts of his, everlasting
joy and mercy.
10 Look at the generations of old and see: whoever trusted in the Lord
and was put to shame? Or whoever, steadfastly fearing him, was
forsaken? Or whoever called to him and was ignored?
11 For the Lord is compassionate and merciful, he forgives sins and
saves in the time of distress.
12 Woe to faint hearts and listless hands, and to the sinner who treads
two paths.
13 Woe to the listless heart that has no faith, for such will have no
protection.
14 Woe to you who have lost the strength to endure; what will you do
at the Lord’s visitation?
15 Those who fear the Lord do not disdain his words, and those who
love him keep his ways.
16 Those who fear the Lord do their best to please him, and those who
love him will find satisfaction in the Law.
17 Those who fear the Lord keep their hearts prepared and humble
themselves in his presence.
18 Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, not into any human clutches;
for as his majesty is, so too is his mercy.

in the “Augsburger Allgemeine” on May 12, 2015 in the article, “Conflict about The Twelve Tribes” you might have seen two posters held up by two girls in the parade.

One poster showed a girl from 1939 with the title “You too belong to the Führer” and the other one was with a girl from today, and it said, “YOU TOO BELONG TO THE STATE”.

I just wanted to let you know: I am this girl from today and I feel exactly like on that picture. The Jugendamt and the family court treat me as if I belong to the state. Since almost two years they try to control my life – without reason.

On September 5,2013 they wrested me from my parents and the community in where I lived, with hundred police, and brought me to the District Office Donauwörth. There were police standing at every exit and in every corner. After a conversation with a social worker we were brought to an examination room. There we were examined medically by state doctors, even though we already let ourselves be examined voluntarily by state doctors in Klosterzimmern. We had to undress completely and of course they didn’t find or anything not even a scratch and I thought, we would go home right away since it was clear that we were not abused.

Imprisoned by the State!

But to my terror they transported me and one of my friends to an institution for difficult girls.

There we were put into “youth protection”…one room with nothing inside besides two beds and a little bathroom and two locked windows. The educators could only air out the room while we were eating and during that time the door was locked behind us. Before we got back to our room they locked the windows again. A real PRISON!

For the next five weeks we were completely isolated. I was not allowed to have any contact with my parents, my siblings, nor anybody else – with no friends or acquaintances, not even with my grandparents, who do not even live in the community. All my steps were controlled and watched precisely – we could not even take a walk to get fresh air.

In that time I did not get to see my parents, that was very hard for me. Finally after weeks I could phone with them for ten minutes a week, but only under supervision. The phone call was listened to and the educator told me what I could say. Afterward she had to write everything down.

My letters to Judge Roser at the court of Nördlingen and to the Judge Prexl at the Higher Regional Court were never answered. Even though I made it very clear at the hearings, that I want to go back to my parents, they only wrote in the rulings that I am endangered, because I live in the community and we believe in the Bible.

I missed everything at home so much – my parents, my siblings, and our beautiful, peaceful life together. How we were together all the time, it didn’t matter what we did, we always had so much fun together. Instead I was here, locked up behind high monastery walls and I could do nothing of all what I used to do before.

After half a year I had enough of it and finally fled from the institution. When I arrived in Klosterzimmern, I was so happy and I thought that now everything could be like before – but unfortunately it was not like that!!

The Jugendamt still tries to control my life.

Constantly they come with police raids to our property and try to catch me again and return me to the institution.

Since my flight from the institution I have to live in fear all the time, that I would be brought back to where I don’t want to be.

Yes, I think I have the right to say that the state controls me, for it is exactly like what I heard about the time 75 years ago. I thought, that people changed in the meantime. It is sad to see, how history repeats itself.

It was clear to me, since the beginning, that the state wants to destroy our community. And that that state tries to do it through the children. It is like genocide.1 If you take away the children of a people, the people perishes.

Our common life and our culture was very appreciated by all thousands of people and all enjoyed it.

Yet it is not a good life for me, according to the JA.

All they could tell me was:

it is not just a problem with your family, but also with the community and because YOU belong to it, we won’t let you go free.

It is genocide according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2, genocide is to “d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;” and “e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group,” thereby, with regards to the Twelve Tribes in Germany, accomplishing “c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;” not to mention the second part of “b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.” ↩

President on her knees in front of a collapsed parent.

European Parliament opens for the ill-treatment of children, parents and parents by German youth welfare offices (Jugendamt) and the system of German Justice.

Brussels / Keltern-Weiler.Heartbreak that could have been experienced nowhere else. In no movie you would ever be able to turn out a scene that would have seemed more authentic than what happened yesterday in Brussels, the heart of the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament.

In her presentation, a mother collapsed whose child had been stolen by the youth welfare office. A deputy and Andrea Jacob came equal to the aid.

Mother collapsing. (Photo by Heiderose Manthey.)

And now the really big thing that happened:

The President of the Committee on Petitions, Cecilia Wikström, left her place, hastened to meet the mother, led her out of the hall and she mothered. In the hallway she was kneeling, as though in front of a child deprived of mother, held her in his arms and soothed her until she could again began to breathe calmly.

were the words with which she managed to relieve the pain —the pain of separation from her child, which was activated in the description that was so deep, so deep that nothing was left. Nothing more.

Yesterday the European Parliament, many MPs were present, who had heard the cry of the mother for her child.

Deep dismay shot through the hall.

Horror on their faces.

Fainting. Helplessness.

Testimonies of the torture of parents and children are getting louder.

Photo by Heiderose Manthey.

The German MEP Peter Year: “It is bitter having to listen to what is happening in Germany: It’s torture!”

Tears streamed from the eyes of those who had experienced the suffering as well as the mother Lorrelay Reggentin.

Heiderose Manthey to the Chairman of the Committee on Petitions, Mrs Cecilia Wikström:
“So how did you go on your knees in front of this weeping mother, so I go in front of you on your knees. But not because you are the President of that committee, but because you are a human! For the first time in 18 years I have experienced the human assistance that tortured people need to be given. For the first time! God bless you!”

Could the reason be their love for them?

These two young people were forced by the state taking them into care to go for the first time in her life a public school. Previously, each one received home schooling at the private school community. In their own words, our youth describe some of their experiences.

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The following is the transcript of the German speaking portion of this video.

Besorah: My name is Besorah Schott and I am 15 years old. I was born and raised in the Twelve Tribes Community of believers.1

“Then when I went to school in Deiningen it was extremely hard for me to find friends because everyone excluded me. I always tried to be friendly to them and make friends, but it somehow didn’t seem to help anything.

“It was totally wild in the classroom, brawling and chairs being thrown through the class room, and….,…it was like hell on earth for me to go to that school. I also got completely discriminated and just not treated normally. For this reason I don’t want to go there any more. I endured it for four months now, but now I have enough.

“Besides that I could not learn at all, I couldn’t concentrate when the children turn on their music and cell phone and are totally distracted. The teacher needs to scream across the room all the time because the children are not under control one bit but are totally wild.

“And then there are the sixteen/seventeen year old boys that only do nonsense (bosh) all the time and enact kindergarten and I want to learn and can’t concentrate… Also in my interim reference you could see very clearly that I was a good student and that I had a good education in the eight years I went to school in Klosterzimmern.

“I can only praise our private school, and would wish to go there again. My experience here in our private school was only good and I didn’t have to suffer under exclusion, discrimination, mocking, blaspheming…. I always wished and had the hope that our private school could be re-opened, but until now nothing has happened yet.”

Other parents do, too:

For similar reasons, other concerned devout parents do not send their children to school:

I think until German parents shall be fully responsible for their children’s education, there will be no real freedom in this country.

We appreciate the courage of the Wunderlich’s. They are asking an important question, if anyone is listening: “Does Germany want to be a free nation?”

Rights are principally lost through forfeiture. That is, through the failure to exercise your inalienable rights as a human being.2 In regards to education, your rights as a parent to direct and control the education of your children — the children God has given you.

Germany takes active measures against those who do not passively forfeit their rights.